structure element offsets
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Dec 23 10:28:38 AEST 1986
> > Or perhaps you were thinking of (type *)(long)x == x ? That would
> > make me nervous but it is technically valid.
>
> Is it? [... Maybe long isn't long enough. ...]
This is why it makes me nervous. I would expect trouble in particular
on machines with long and pointers the same size *except* that char
pointers are longer because the original pointer format didn't provide
addressing to the byte.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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